GEOG20012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neoliberalism, Suharto, Environmental Governance
28 Jul 2018
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What happens when minorities seek to go national? (anderson 2003) Mimicking late colonial era struggles - for better and worse. Profoundly homogenising instincts of the nation state. Need to investigate practices and the multiplicity of power and actors. Who owns the past and who gets to memorialise it. New boundaries, population movements land reforms and conditions of access (development and pauperization). Political dimensions of the ways land and resource conflicts are being negotiated (baird. Terrains of resistance and social movements (routledge 2005) Land grabs from elites and international corporations for agricultural and industrial. Mass rural to urban migration in search of modernity. Technocratic approach to environmental and resource governance. Attention to discourse (constructed ideas about places and spaces) Attention to practices (shaping different places and spaces) Attention to history, which shaped places, and which is contested. Attention to power and how this shapes difference and future possibilities (including for conflict). The politics of nation building and resources in timor.
